owr, “light,” strong’s H216

First occurrence

And God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light. Gen 1:3

The primitive root

Strong’s H216 owr, a concrete noun meaning, “light,” from Strong’s H215 אור owr, a primitive root meaning, “to be or become light.” The pictographs are aleph + vav + resh:

aleph א = the ox head, thus strength, power, leader
vav ו = the tent peg, thus add, secure, hook
resh ר = the head of man, thus head, first, top, beginning, man

The story the pictographs are telling is of the cattle (aleph) secured (vav) by the man (resh), thus the cognate words are (cattle) pen, stall, as the place men secure their cattle, and also box, as a livestock stall was in a box shape. Boxes are used to organize and store things, so that there is order instead of chaos, and when God created light, He brought what was chaotic into order.

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